Harry Island
| Harry Island | ||
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| Waters | Gerlache Street | |
| Archipelago | Palmer Archipelago | |
| Geographical location | 64 ° 7 ′ S , 62 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| Highest elevation | 128 m | |
The Harry Island ( French Ile Harry , in Chile Isla Enrique ) is an ice-covered island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It is located in the southeast entrance of the strait between the Brabant Island and Liège Island . The island is dominated by a 128 m high, pyramidal mountain.
Participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) led by the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery discovered it and landed here on January 25, 1898. De Gerlache named it after the Belgian newspaper publisher Gérard Harry (1856–1931), a sponsor of the research trip .
Web links
- Harry Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Harry Island on geographic.org (English)